Chapter 227: Hourglass of Time

In the silent cave heaven, as the competition for the supreme treasure ended, Xia Yan and the female artifact cultivator, who had given up the struggle, were instantly teleported out...

On Lin Jing's side, it was slightly slower, and a magic treasure in the shape of an hourglass slowly appeared beside him.

"Let's call you the Hourglass of Time." Putting the hourglass into his storage bag, Lin Jing took a deep breath, his head aching.

He had obtained the treasure... now he also had to bear the karma of obtaining it.

After taking the Heaven Treasure, after a period of time, Lin Jing was also teleported out of the cave heaven.

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West of the Ancient Kingdom, Martial Emperor City.

One of the eight great families, the Feng family.

Numerous clan elders gathered before a pillar of light reaching the sky.

"I didn't expect Feng Ya, this concubine's daughter, to be chosen by the cave heaven. Why didn't anyone discover her potential before?"

"What's the use? It's the Heaven Treasure Cave Heaven. A flash report just came in; Lei Zhen of the Lei family was also pulled into the cave heaven at the same time. Judging from the records in ancient books about the Heaven Treasure Cave Heaven, if this concubine's daughter is decisive in her choices, she might save her life. If she forcibly competes for the cave heaven's opportunities, I fear she will die and her soul will dissipate."

"Regardless, being chosen by the cave heaven proves her luck. As long as she comes out alive, it's worth the family cultivating her with all their might! Even if she doesn't want to refine artifacts anymore, let her be!" a clan elder snorted coldly.

The other clan elders were silent.

In the Feng clan, there were their own clan rules and traditions. The family's core sword dao inheritance could only be practiced by the direct line. As for the collateral branches, they had to practice the way of artifact refining and sword casting according to family regulations to assist the direct line.

This clan rule, although it had always made the collateral branch disciples dissatisfied, was powerless against the strength of the direct line.

Until one collateral branch, because their daughter showed good sword dao talent but could still only learn artifact refining and could not learn the family's sword dao inheritance, expressed dissatisfaction with the main family and withdrew from the family.

If it were only this, it wouldn't be enough to move the Feng clan. What shocked the Feng clan was that this collateral daughter, after being brought into the Ancient Kingdom by her parents, had her sword dao talent become increasingly brilliant, and she was even accepted as a personal disciple by a Ancestor Kong Xuan sword cultivator of the Ancient Kingdom's number one sword sect, the Heaven Sword Sect, recognized as having the potential for Ancestor Kong Xuan.

Subsequently, she indeed lived up to expectations and became the number one Golden Core prodigy famous in the Ancient Kingdom. Only then did the Feng clan understand what a talented disciple the family had missed.

In order to let that disciple return to the family, the Feng clan even rewrote the clan rules, willing to let talented collateral branches practice the family's core inheritance.

And that concubine-born woman was none other than the senior sister of the Heaven Sword Sect, Sword Immortal Ling Yue.

Now another talented concubine-born daughter had appeared. Although her talent might not be comparable to Sword Immortal Ling Yue, the Feng clan would definitely fully excavate her talent and could not miss talent again.

Hum!

Suddenly, the cave heaven dissipated.

Feng Ya, the concubine-born daughter of the Feng family, walked out of the cave heaven with a shocked mood,

completely unaware that the surroundings were full of high-ranking and powerful elders of the family.

"She's out!" Seeing Feng Ya return alive, the clan elders couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, fearing she would die in the cave heaven.

"Feng Ya!" a clan elder called out, and Feng Ya's consciousness returned, looking at the clan elders.

"It seems you gave up the competition for the Heaven Treasure... a wise choice. With your strength, you are not yet a match for Lei Zhen. But next, the family will cultivate you as much as possible. Was that cave heaven treasure finally taken away by Lei Zhen of the Lei family?" a clan elder asked.

"Lei Zhen?" Feng Ya was stunned.

Before she could answer, outside the Feng clan, thunder suddenly roared, angry electricity growled, and rumbling continued.

A golden-haired man with Deity Transformation cultivation descended upon this collateral branch land of the Feng family, looking at the various clan elders of the Feng family, looking at Feng Ya who had just returned from the cave heaven.

"Lei Qianren, what are you doing here!!" The numerous clan elders looked at this man, their auras revealed, questioning him.

"My son is dead! He died in the cave heaven!" The man named Lei Qianren had a terrifying expression.

After he finished speaking, several Feng clan elders were immediately shocked. This Lei Qianren was none other than Lei Zhen's father. They knew Lei Zhen's strength and talent clearly, and he even had multiple mid-grade magic treasures on him. How could he... die in the Heaven Treasure Cave Heaven?

"It seems your Feng clan disciple gave up the cave heaven opportunity and saved her life... I ask you, do you know who killed my son?" His expression gradually calmed down, but within the calm contained an emotion that made people shudder.

The Feng clan elders were silent, saying, "Please accept our condolences."

"Feng Ya, why don't you quickly explain the cave heaven matter!" Anyway, it wasn't their Feng family disciple who killed Lei Zhen. The Feng clan elders immediately let Feng Ya carefully explain the events inside the cave heaven, not wanting to provoke this star of disaster who had lost his son too much, and they strongly suppressed their laughter. It's good that he died, it's good...

"It was... an alchemist from Qingzhou..."

"I don't know his background, only that his strength is terrifyingly incomparable, he is good at fire techniques, and the spell he used was a white dragon-shaped beast fire. He only had mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, yet instantly... instantly killed three Foundation Establishment peaks with combat power comparable to Golden Core..."

"Qingzhou, alchemist!!! You, draw his portrait!" The Lei clan Deity Transformation expert gritted his teeth and threw out a scroll.

And at this time, the Feng clan elders, upon hearing this, were even more shocked. What mid-stage Foundation Establishment, able to instantly kill Lei Zhen, and still an alchemist? Is there such an alchemist??

At the same time.

Qingzhou, Tai Xuan Dao, Tai Xuan Sect.

An old Deity Transformation expert looked at his granddaughter, whose head was separated from her body, his old tears streaming down.

"No matter who it is, no matter who it is, I will make you pay the price!!"

"The murderer... is also in Qingzhou? Good, good!"

On a flying boat flying toward the Heaven-Reaching Dao.

Xia Yan was also watched by a group of strong experts and Alchemist Jiegeng, telling the story of the cave

heaven.

Hearing that the nameless alchemist had also entered the cave heaven and even displayed strength sufficient to suppress several ordinary Golden Cores, Alchemist Jiegeng showed a surprised expression.

"Return to Tianqing City." She immediately ordered.

Besides this, outside Qingzhou, the East Sea...

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Inside Tianqing City, Lin Jing had also returned to the outside. At this time, outside the Nameless Pill Pavilion, and even the entire commercial street, there were no idlers, all cleared by the Qingming Pavilion. Only Venerable Ling Quan looked at the returning Lin Jing with a smile, saying:

"Good lad, it's good that you didn't die. But did you give up the struggle for the Heaven Treasure, or did you obtain the final victory?"

"Looking at your clothes being spotless, you must have given up, right? A wise choice. With your cultivation, it might indeed be too much of a stretch."

"I was still worried that you little brat would die, and my owed pills would have no one to return them."

"Come, tell me what the situation in the cave heaven is. I am still quite curious about what happened inside the cave heaven."

Lin Jing chuckled...

Before he could make up a story, Venerable Ling Quan suddenly took out a compass, and a human figure appeared on the compass.

"Venerable, the granddaughter of Venerable Bai Xuan of the Tai Xuan Sect died in the cave heaven. He claims that the person who killed his granddaughter Bai Luo is roughly in the direction of the Qingming Dao. There is his soul blood positioning in Bai Luo's storage bag!"

"Venerable Bai Xuan entrusts the Qingming Chamber of Commerce that if anyone is found coming out of the cave heaven, they must help keep them, and the Tai Xuan Sect will definitely have a heavy reward."

Venerable Ling Quan's expression changed, his smile gradually disappeared, and he looked at Lin Jing.

"?"

And after Lin Jing was stunned, he took out a storage bag with bad luck and found a drop of soul blood from it.

Then he reached out his hand and directly pinched it to explode.

"Senior Ling Quan, this matter has nothing to do with you, and you wouldn't want your pill debtor to be beaten to death, right..." Lin Jing smiled. "Let's discuss it, just pretend you didn't see me..."

At this time, Lin Jing was still calm. Although he didn't expect the girl in the green dress to have soul blood positioning, the situation was not too bad. This Venerable Ling Quan couldn't see through his illusion technique, and even if he wanted to keep Lin Jing, he was helpless, because as long as Lin Jing hid in the "Hourglass of Time" to temporarily avoid it, and then found an opportunity to stealthily escape, he could still slip away... ===== CHAPTER 228 =====